The Baseball Zealot

Looking at the Game of Baseball from all ends of the Spectrum

As Baseball Musings mentioned, MLB.com reporter Tom Singer seems a little surprised that Chien-Ming Wang really wasn’t in the mix in the Cy Young competition. His article’s (written yesterday before vote result was announced) sub-headline read Competition appears to be between Beckett and Sabathia.

because Beckett and Wang were the respective leaders of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Their season-long excellence on the road to 20 wins — a destination only Beckett reached — figured to be hard to ignore.

Then another undisputed staff ace, the Indians’ C.C. Sabathia, drove a wedge into that battle, emerging by the end of the season as Beckett’s main challenger.